December 8, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



657 



Sir Edward Sliaiipey Schafer, M.D., F.EjS. 

 Those who desire to 'be enrolled as members are 

 requested to forward their names and addresses, 

 together with the amount of their subscription 

 (25 shillings), to Miss Charlton, Department 

 of Physiology, University, Eddnlburgh, who 

 will send on request particulars of hotel's and 

 lodgings, and all other necessary information. 



In its issue of October 28 Nature says : "In 

 an article on Lord Inchcape's task in the Sun- 

 day Times of Oetaber 22, a former finance 

 member of the government of India, Lord 

 Meston, makes an alarming suggestion. Speak- 

 ing of things 'useful, but not essential,' he 

 says, "many of the- research institutes amd the 

 like will oome under the shears.' The illiberal 

 spirit which inspired our domestic wielders of 

 the axe may thus be carried by one of them to 

 India — a country which, more than any other, 

 perhaps, has benefited by the application of 

 science to 'useful' purposes. The plant breed- 

 ers there, alone, have literally added millions 

 to the country's wealth; new wheats and cot- 

 tons yielding 20 to 30 per cent, more tham the 

 indigenous varieties have already been success- 

 fully introduced. It must not be forgotten 

 that, in India, the prosperity of agriculture is 

 a fundamental element of the solvency of the 

 government, for there, the state, as owner of 

 the soil, takes one half of the rental value of 

 the land. The sum thus raised approaches a 

 moiety of the whole taxation of the country. 

 It is to be hoped that such a suieidal policy as 

 that indicated hy Lord Meston will not be ad- 

 vocated toy Lord Inchcape, though as a quon- 

 dam member of the Geddes 'Committee he may 

 be inclined to repeat its mistakes." 



Dr. H. M. Quanjee, head of the Institute 

 for Phytopathology at Wageningen, Holland, 

 announces that an international phytopatho- 

 logical conference is being organized to meet 

 in Holland in June, 1923. The committee in 

 charge consists of Professor Westerdijk, Mr. 

 V. Poeteren, and Dr. v. Slogteren in addition 

 to Dr. Quanjer. A cordial invitation is ex- 

 tended to Americans. Detailed announcement 

 may be expected later and meanwhile any 

 inquiries may be addressed to Dr. Quanjer. 



The program for the second annual meeting 

 of the Science Section of the Association of 

 Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the 

 Middle States and Maryland held at the 

 Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Delaware, on 

 Satiu-daj', December 2, 1922, at 9 :45 A.M., was 

 as follows: Address on "Science teaching in 

 schools and colleges," Dr. Charles L. Reese, 

 chemical director, E. I. duPont deNemours and 

 Company. Symposium on "Outstanding Prob- 

 lems of the Science Curriculum" (ten-minute 

 papers) : "The present status of science in the 

 high schools of New York City," Rosemary F. 

 Mullen, Washington Ir-^dng High School, New 

 York City; "The ideal science curriculum for 

 the high school," J. M. Arthur, Tome School, 

 Port Deposit, Md. ; "The elective sj'stem and 

 the science curriculum in the secondary 

 school," Henry M. 'Snyder, Wilmington High 

 School; "Biology in the science curriculum," 

 Winifred J. Robinson, dean of Women's Col- 

 lege, University of Delaware, Newark, Dela- 

 ware; "The status of the American Chemical 

 Society on the correlation of high school and 

 college chemistry," Neil E. Gordon, University 

 of Maryland, secretary of Chemical Education 

 Section, American Chemical Society. Address 

 on "The relation between science and modern 

 religious thought. Dr. S. C. Schmucker, pro- 

 fessor of biology, State Normal School, West 

 Chester, Pa. 



The Univei-sity of Paris has published com- 

 parative statistics of students matriculated in 

 1921 and 1922, which are quoted in the Journal 

 of the Medical Association. In July, 1921, the 

 total matriculation reached 21,185 (17,993 men 

 and 3,192 women). In 1922 the nmnber had 

 grown to 21,612 (18,066 men and 3,546 

 women), or an increase of 427 students. The 

 department most strongly represented in 1922 

 was law. Then came medicine, with 4,639 stu- 

 dents (738 women) ; belles-lettres, with 3,381 

 students (1,450 women) ; sciences, with 3,179 

 students (532 women), and pharmacy, with 

 743 students (234 women). The department in 

 which the most women are enrolled is that of 

 belles-lettres (1,450 women as against 1,931 

 men). From 1921 to 1922 the number of 



